Lets make it official,
Last Saturday I went snowshoeing with my dad and uncle Tyler who is visiting from Chicago for Christmas. We went along the Bonneville shoreline trail, the other direction from last time. We hiked around the new Draper temple and the South Mountain area. It was so pretty, but man it was hard work! I have forgotten how much of a workout snowshoeing is. But thats okay, I am always up for an outdoor adventure.
This is dad. He is the pro at all outdoor excursions.
Cool nest I found. I think it is the nest of a hawk or something cool like that. Underneath the nest there was a deer nest but I couldnt get it all in the same photo.
Every Christmas since 8th grade we have all gone to dinner and temple square for the annual "Girls Night Out" it is pretty much the only time I see some of the girls so it is a great event. Jennifer Wheatley is the arranger (what is the real word for that?) and sets the whole thing up for us. Thank you! The girls that came this year starting from the top left are Brooke (Bonham) Miller, Amber (haslam) Gray, Mariah (beesley) Barker, Jessica Lamph, me Kara (fugate) Olsen, Taren (smith) Davis, Lora Hudson, Jennifer Wheatley, and Nikki Garfield.
Jennifer is a professional photographer so she takes all the pictures or sets the pictures up so they all look good. Temple Square is so pretty at Christmas time with all the lights. It was actually featured on a t.v. show that talked about the top 10 decorated Christmas locations! Cool huh...and it wasn't even a Utah created show! Go Temple Square.
Weird picture I know. Some of the girls wanted to do a picture of all them as a group of the single girls, so we thought it would be fun to do a picture of all the married girls . Three of them have kids...can you guess who?
Last Friday Tim's cousin called and asked if we wanted some Jazz tickets in the upper bowl-way at the top. We are always a fan of going regardless where the seats are, so his cousin left the tickets at 'will call' for us. When we picked them up guess where they were at...Lower bowl, row 14! These were just straight across from the Jazz bench and super close to the players. It was really cool.
The Jazz played the Kings and blew them out ( that is one of few wins this season :( ) We had lots of fun and afterwards went down to the floor to get a picture. This was the closest I had ever sat at a Jazz game, actually probably closest seat for anything. Before the game we went to 'Five Guys Burgers and Fries' I Highly recommend. It is inexpensive and gooood. It was a great night, and nice to be able to go on a date with my hubby.
The Monday before this game the company I work for had a Jazz night. Hoopes Vision sponsored a Jazz game so Tim and I were able to go. It was fun to be in an out of work element with my work friends. Dr. Hoopes Sr. and Jr. got recognized during half time for being the official Jazz Lasik provider and for doing The Jazz Bear's Lasik a few weeks ago. What a fun week.
Remember when Corner Canyon caught on fire. Well it was closer than I thought. Isn't it amazing what a fire can do? The mountain was actually still pretty in a different way, fascinating really. The trail continued just the same as before but looked like a bone carving through dirt, it reminded me of the Shadow Lands on The Lion King. So dark and lonely. I half expected to see tumbleweed blowing and a skull of a bull lying near the path. Weird.
Tim and I host a Halloween party at our cabin every year. It is so fun to see what people come up with to dress up as. This is the group this year. There were some witches, vampires, mummy, pool balls, bunny, strong man, priest, chef, and mechanic. It was great.
Sarah is pregnant so she fit very well in her 8 ball costume.
My work had an awesome Halloween party and costume contest. Almost everybody got dressed up, it was great. There were some very creative costumes. These are the 'Weather Girls' the front desk receptionists. Snow, Sun, Rain Storm, and Wind. So creative.
There was a prize for the scariest costume decided upon by the doctors and out of all the awesome costumes to choose from, guess who won SCARIEST......
Tim and I took a long time needed vacation to St. George last weekend. My grandparents live down there so we were able to stay with them. It is always great to visit with them. Grandma even made her awesome Biscuits and Gravy for breakfast-a big favorite of ours.
We kept busy the whole time, hardly a minute to just sit. We went fishing Saturday evening at Quail Creek Reservoir just outside of Hurricane, it was my first time and Tim was such a good teacher that I even caught a fish! Tim caught one too but I wasn't around to take a picture. :(
Tim LOVES to golf so as his wife I am 'obligated' to go too :). We went to some really pretty courses. Tim is really good, and I think I would rank at "fair." It was great weather and we had a lot of fun being out in the sun and fresh air. The more I go, the more I like it, so Tim may not be able to go golfing without me anymore. Sorry honey.
I didn't get pictures but we went over to the Senior Olympics to watch some events and it was really cool. Who knew old people could be so athletic? They were really good. I had no idea that it was such a big event, people from all over the world came to St. George to compete!
Good bye Wasatch Club :) We are so outta there. I do have to say we had a good two years in the 584 square foot apartment....no really. It is nice to be gone though. We have moved to a basement apartment in Sandy. We welcome any visitors, but beware that if it is during "Friends" or during a Utah Jazz game you'll have to pardon our laughing and cheering!!!
We borrowed a dolly and good thing; I'm not sure I could have carried my giant Costco sized Bisquik by myself! Phew!
Poor thing, a huge wilderness and this is all there was to eat.
Mirror Lake, one of the stops on the motorcycle trip
A quick stop on the way home to give their backsides a rest :)
What a handsome fella.
Kara went to Youth Conference. We went River Rafting down the Colorado River. It was a BLAST! There was a family visiting from Paris for a few days so one of the river guides carved the family out of a watermelon.
The Fugate boys and Tim went on a motorcycle trip to Bear Lake. I am so proud of Tim for being brave and going. He is deathly afraid of motorcycles!! Everybody ended up having alot of fun
On the 24th of July we went to the Bees game with Reagan and Angie, Trevor and Sarah, & Drew and Katie. It was a fun game, there was a really good fireworks show afterwards that we went out onto the baseball field to watch. Tim and I went to the Bees game on the 4th of July as well, but that one wasn't as fun. It was SOOO crowded, we always get seats on the burm (grass behind the outfield) because its cheaper and more comfortable and on the 4th there was not a single piece of grass for us to sit on! We ended up sitting on the sidewalk behind people that would not sit down, so we didn't get to see any of the game. The firework show that night wasn't as good as the one on the 24th.
This is the whole gang. Plus the bishopric. We join with another ward since both of us have such small young women groups. This picture is kind of blurry-my camera is having issues and so is this font, I don't know why it changed colors all of the sudden. 
This is Sheryn my first councilor, she is great. In this picture she is finishing off the fruit salad for us. Waste not, want not!
